A damning assessment of the provision for special educational needs was given by the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) at a meeting of Stormont’s Education Committee on Wednesday.
he CLC’s Rachel Hogan said “disability discrimination was institutionalised” in the system and that not enough had been done to address concerns consistently raised over the years.
She told MLAs that 97% of parents taking a case against the Education Authority (EA) concerning a child requiring special educational needs had been successful.
She said that was a clear indication that the assessment process was fatally flawed.
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